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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Play safe Sex Picked Untrue
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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Say to yourself- I was made to be global, achieve things only wildest dreams could conceive and only in that incredulity will I find my true purpose in life.

Say Yourself Global Achieve
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I was advised to seize the opportunity and sing the tribute song for Mandela because I was inspired by his story, and he was not only loved in South Africa but in the whole world.

Advised Opportunity Sing Tribute
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I think so far, the deepest song I have sung is reggae blues. The truth is that reggae blues was meant to be the kind of song that would make you just sit down and think about your life. But we turned it into a song that would make you dance, and forget about your sorrows.

Deepest song Reggae blues Truth Sit down
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I cannot rap to save my life. The few times I tried it in the privacy of my house, my friends told me to shut my mouth because I was just doing rubbish. I can handle all other genres of music except rap.

Save My life Privacy House
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Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

Another Anything Connected Drama
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What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.

About Big Coming I Remember
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Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!
About How Long Me
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

About Always Am Been
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Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

Ate Day Friends Hard
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Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

Closet Closets Dad Dress
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Alone Any Asked Cottage
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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

Price Pay Valuable Time
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Before Blood Breath Caused
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I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Anyone Boxing Bullied Camp
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Although Any Born Brought
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The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

Around Feather Feathers Find
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Along Because Cheating Cry
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Became Deeply First Rhythm
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Always Barrel Bottom Felt
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

About Am Approach End
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I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

End Had Never Retirement
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The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

About Because Bizarre Dead
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I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

After Album Dropped First
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Angry Father Him Like
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Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Ball Because Being Benefits
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Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

Am Born Gift God
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I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

Always Because Call Day
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I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.

About Barcelona Because Been
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While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Attending Blood Classes Covered
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A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

Always Connects Cross Daughter
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I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

Become Career College Modeling
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First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

About About A Year Ambassador Became
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I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
Been Child Film Films
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I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Always Chance Disappear Having
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When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

No shoes Comfortable Run barefoot Difficult
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

My father Running Sensible Wasting time
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I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Kid Years old Wanting Get up
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When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Started Watch Films Movies
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There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

God Nothing Shouting Wrong
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Man spends Time Wife Criticism
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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Waste time Break Man's heart
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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Against Determined Had Horn
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Age Around Arrested Back
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